Dog Lovers

Nobody tells you how heavy a chain can look until you see one holding a mother dog in place, with nowhere to go and nobody coming to help. That was the scene waiting…

Under a hulking piece of heavy machinery, on a patch of cold, hard dirt, a dog waited for something to change. He was chained there, with nowhere to go and nothing to look…

Nobody stopped. Cars pulled into the pumps and drove off again. People filled their tanks, grabbed a coffee and went about their day. The whole time, a small dog lay still on the…

The water came quietly at first, the way floods often do. Then it kept rising, swallowing roads, yards, and front porches until the whole village had disappeared beneath a brown, endless sea. Families…

There is a particular kind of quiet that settles over a shelter when a new arrival comes through the door in desperate shape. Staff speak more softly. Hands move more gently. Everyone understands,…

Somewhere, in a quiet place most of us will never see, a little dog lay on the cold ground and cried. Nobody came on the first day, and nobody came on the second….

Near a cold drainage pipe on the edge of a quiet road, two small shadows moved slowly through the weeds. One was a mother dog, so thin that every rib showed beneath her…

The cold that morning was the kind that cuts right through your coat and settles deep in your bones. Most folks were hurrying along with their heads down, eager to get somewhere warm….

There are dogs who wander the streets, and then there are dogs who seem to carry the whole weight of the world on their shoulders. Oso was one of those dogs. For him,…